alison lapper in my own words
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Wow, remarkable TV. Anyone seen it? A whole heap of raw footage because she was in early fly on the wall TV stuff, her only child died at 19 from suspected overdose after suffering with depression (real depression not the media's 'my gas bill is high' mental health crap).
She was born with no arms and shortened legs, dumped at some children's home and disowned by her mother.
Some frank and upsetting stuff in here, but she is a charismatic and endearing person.
Through the darkness there are some lovely bits like this one, at Art college a male tutor on seeing her naked photography said something about her work being hard to look at, but 'you've got great tits!'
She smiles and says "these days people would be saying that was terrible for him to say that...but you know, i felt great, YES i've got great tits...."
Wow, remarkable TV. Anyone seen it? A whole heap of raw footage because she was in early fly on the wall TV stuff, her only child died at 19 from suspected overdose after suffering with depression (real depression not the media's 'my gas bill is high' mental health crap).
She was born with no arms and shortened legs, dumped at some children's home and disowned by her mother.
Some frank and upsetting stuff in here, but she is a charismatic and endearing person.
Through the darkness there are some lovely bits like this one, at Art college a male tutor on seeing her naked photography said something about her work being hard to look at, but 'you've got great tits!'
She smiles and says "these days people would be saying that was terrible for him to say that...but you know, i felt great, YES i've got great tits...."
Kamov said:
iPlayer.
Wow, remarkable TV. Anyone seen it? A whole heap of raw footage because she was in early fly on the wall TV stuff, her only child died at 19 from suspected overdose after suffering with depression (real depression not the media's 'my gas bill is high' mental health crap).
She was born with no arms and shortened legs, dumped at some children's home and disowned by her mother.
Some frank and upsetting stuff in here, but she is a charismatic and endearing person.
Through the darkness there are some lovely bits like this one, at Art college a male tutor on seeing her naked photography said something about her work being hard to look at, but 'you've got great tits!'
She smiles and says "these days people would be saying that was terrible for him to say that...but you know, i felt great, YES i've got great tits...."
Thanks for posting.Wow, remarkable TV. Anyone seen it? A whole heap of raw footage because she was in early fly on the wall TV stuff, her only child died at 19 from suspected overdose after suffering with depression (real depression not the media's 'my gas bill is high' mental health crap).
She was born with no arms and shortened legs, dumped at some children's home and disowned by her mother.
Some frank and upsetting stuff in here, but she is a charismatic and endearing person.
Through the darkness there are some lovely bits like this one, at Art college a male tutor on seeing her naked photography said something about her work being hard to look at, but 'you've got great tits!'
She smiles and says "these days people would be saying that was terrible for him to say that...but you know, i felt great, YES i've got great tits...."
I live a few miles away from Bethlem psychiatric hospital in south London and went along there for the first time recently to the gallery/museum.
https://museumofthemind.org.uk/
They had an Alison Lapper exhibition and being honest I found things a bit difficult with regards the challenges she had especially the death of her son. For that reason I didnt watch the TV programme. But I think I will now.
Provided you make sure you go at a suitable time and respect the guidance about where you go and what you should do the hospital is an interesting place to go. It has a gift shop too. I love a good gift shop.
And I owe you an even bigger thanks because I've just noticed they have a guided walk in October that I can go on. Cheers.
I watched this when it was on late on one of the Beeb channels. Terribly sad,depressing,humbling, yet uplifting, inspiring and laugh out loud at the same time. I’m very glad I watched it, and very pleased to see the progress that has been made since the care she experienced in very different times.
normalbloke said:
I watched this when it was on late on one of the Beeb channels. Terribly sad,depressing,humbling, yet uplifting, inspiring and laugh out loud at the same time. I’m very glad I watched it, and very pleased to see the progress that has been made since the care she experienced in very different times.
All of this. Watched it last week and it was a fantastic programme. The sections about her growing up were fascinating/inspiring/horriiying all at the same time. The sections about her some were really difficult to watch.And yes, I laughed at the tits comment as well.
I stumbled upon it when I was channel surfing a couple of weeks ago, it's an amazing programme. I was aware of her through Child of Our Time but didn't know any of her back story. She's an amazing person just to have survived all of that and still be able to smile.
The most shocking thing for me was the attitude of the Gallery Owner showing her work in the early '00s.
The most shocking thing for me was the attitude of the Gallery Owner showing her work in the early '00s.
Alfa numeric said:
I stumbled upon it when I was channel surfing a couple of weeks ago, it's an amazing programme. I was aware of her through Child of Our Time but didn't know any of her back story. She's an amazing person just to have survived all of that and still be able to smile.
The most shocking thing for me was the attitude of the Gallery Owner showing her work in the early '00s.
Yes and as an Artist her work is not even close to shocking, around this time we had dead rotting sharks and rotting cows heads and that is just re hashed ideas from conceptual stuff from decades before.The most shocking thing for me was the attitude of the Gallery Owner showing her work in the early '00s.
It was a bizarre comment from him and can only conclude it was that era of posh people trying to act like Liam Gallagher and getting it all wrong. Also he had no clue as to why people collect Art and high on the list isn't how it looks on your wall, utter idiot.
If people feel its an investment they will literally buy a tin of s
t.I also want to find out more about her driving, that was incredible, driving hands free so controlling steering with foot pedals?
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